Lullaby

Let me

Learn to breathe

Underwater

So I may

Listen to the

Sound of bubbles

Surfacing from

Deep waters

Attune to

Thrumming currents

Pulsing base chords

Echo steady rhythms

Whales sing out

Alto notes

Plucking strings of

Kelp forests, that

Push and tumble

Seabed rocks

Staccato drums, a

Rataplan rolling, in

Tapping syncopation

Pause in the

Silence before

Symphony opens

First notes ringing

The tinkling heard

When as a child

Hair was washed

Tiny droplets ringing

Across water’s

Surface tension

Aquatic caresses

By loving hands

Mothers who

Humming lullabies

Set little ones

Adrift under

Moonlit skies

Casting beams

Across sleeping faces

Dreaming, composing

Ocean poesies

Of their own